Katherine Ireland

Beautystack is a networked marketplace app for influential beauty professionals. Our users post images of their work and their clients can book directly from an image, see what their friends are booking and like and save their favourite treatments. We aim to change the future of work for independent Beauty Pros by powering their careers. Although on the surface we have a pretty cute app, innovation is at the core of our business and we use the latest technology to build our systems. In the future, will have fun applying ML, AI and data science to the business of beauty. We are a small but ambitious team, fully engaged in our company vision and we're excited about the global scope for our product. Beautystack was founded by Sharmadean Reid, of WAH Nails, in 2017 and has been backed by LocalGlobe.

Happy Socks is for all of us who think that life can never be too colourful. And that true happiness stems from the freedom to be yourself. Our vision is to bring happiness to every corner of the world by inspiring authentic self-expression through color, creativity, and fun.

Feelunique is Europe's largest independent online beauty retailer, home to over 20,000 products from over 450 leading brands including luxury brands Chanel, Dior, Tom Ford, Estée Lauder, YSL, Kérastase, GHD, Kiehl’s and Laura Mercier. Founded in 2005, Feelunique has over 1.6 million registered customers worldwide and ships on average 11,500 products a day to 110 countries from the UK to France and Australia. At Feelunique we believe that beauty is FUN and that everyone should have access to it. Access regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation and socio economic status. For us beauty is universal. Access regardless of location. With us, beauty is one click away. Beauty without Boundaries. La Beauté sans Limites

PMB Capital’s clients are industrial families, business owners and entrepreneurs. We are a merchant bank, with our advisory offering focused on M&A and the provision of investment capital in the private-to-private channel. Given our success in sourcing attractive opportunities for our clients, we have chosen to establish our own vehicle, PMB Invest, to commit capital alongside our clients in some of the most exciting transactions we encounter through our proprietary deal flow. We operate globally from our offices in London, Frankfurt and Luxembourg.

We create value for society from government’s most complex commercial interests. Combining the best of public and private sector expertise, UK Government Investments is government’s centre of expertise for corporate governance and corporate finance. We work with both private sector and the wider public sector, with regular interaction with ministers, parliament and Whitehall departments. UKGI’s key objectives are: Corporate Governance - Act as shareholder for, and lead establishment of, UK government arm’s length bodies Corporate Finance - Advise on all major UK government corporate finance matters, including financial interventions into corporate structures and corporate finance negotiations Contingent Liabilities - Analyse and advise on the UK governments contingent liabilities Asset Management - Acquire, manage and execute the sale of all significant UK government corporate assets UKGI also oversees the Government Corporate Finance Profession (www.gov.uk/government/organisations/civil-service-corporate-finance-profession-cfp). The Profession supports government corporate finance professionals through training and career development, so that they develop the knowledge and skills they require to carry out their roles.

Sprints provides growth capital to tech-enabled companies that place customer happiness at the heart of everything they do. We focus on established businesses that are led by strong product and tech teams and have proven, capital efficient business models. An experienced team, a partnership mindset, and a culture of integrity and transparency are our promises to the companies we partner with.